The World’s Last Blockbuster Has No Plans to Close. Here’s Why It’s Still Open
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#2For anyone who wants to learn more about Blockbuster and Netflix, the Acquired podcast has a phenomenal episode which covers The saga in depth: https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/season-3-episode-8nbspnetfl...
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#3I hope they're not entitled to my late fees
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#4Sometimes I wonder if all journalists do is browse reddit all day. Invariably, something I see on reddit gets a "news" article a few months later.
The last blockbuster apparently has an official beer too.
https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/9tx0y3/t...
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#5Sometimes I wonder if all journalists do is browse reddit all day. Invariably, something I see on reddit gets a "news" article a few months later. The last blockbuster apparently has an official beer too. https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/9tx0y3/t...
Have you read "Trust Me, I'm Lying" by Ryan Holiday?
While he was working at American Apparel, he figured out that while it was expensive to advertise directly on major news sites, etc, it was fairly easy to figure out what smaller sites were the real "influencers." By advertising or promoting material there, he got coverage on larger blogs for a fraction of the price.
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#6That's not the last Blockbuster in the world. There's one near me in Rome.
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#7That's not the last Blockbuster in the world. There's one near me in Rome.
That's been closed for a while now...peek in the windows and see the desolation...what do you do in Rome? Not a native Italian but I left because of lack of tech scene(among other things)
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#8The loving nostalgia for dead corporate behemoths is kind of curious. Blockbuster shut down a ton of mom-and-pop video stores. Circuit City and Good Guys did the same for small electronics retailers. Tower Records killed small record shops, then Tower itself got killed and a documentary was made lamenting its passing!
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#9That's not the last Blockbuster in the world. There's one near me in Rome.
That's been closed for a while now...peek in the windows and see the desolation...what do you do in Rome? Not a native Italian but I left because of lack of tech scene(among other things)
Very much off topic but being in the process of choosing a "base" in the EU I'm curious to know where you ended up living, that has a good tech scene.
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#10It makes me wonder what Blockbuster corporate is like, and how you handle that transition. Ten years ago I imagine they have a corporate office with hundreds of employees, a CEO earning millions, and a highly paid consultancy firm telling them how to reinvent the business. Now the CEO is the manager of the last store and the CFO is the employee who helps him count the cash at night?